Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
“An undoubtedly important moment in genre history” -- Fangoria
An Austrian cult film that dives into the life and mind of a serial killer without looking back. Intimately limited to the killer's point of view, Angst is a risky but complex vision of the human mind gone astray. Fresh out of prison after serving a lengthy sentence for premeditated murder, a psychopath sets out to find his new prey. He finds new potential victims in a house where an old lady and her two children live.
Photographed by Oscar-winning Polish animator Zbig Rybczynski and scored by Krautrock synth god Klaus Schulze, this underseen arthouse brainbomb is one hell of a stylized and visceral experience -- a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle.
Gerald Kargl
Gerald Kargl is an Austrian film director most famous for directing the 1983 film Angst. Being fascinated by moving pictures, he began shooting short films at the age of 14. Between 1976 and 1982 he founded and organized the Austrian film festival Die Österreichischen Filmtage. At the same time he was founder and editor of the Austrian film magazine Filmschrift. In 1981 he formed the LLC Gerald Kargl Ges.m.b.H. Filmproduktion. In 1982/83 he wrote, directed and produced the feature film Angst in cooperation with the Polish filmmaker Zbigniew Rybczyński, who won an Oscar for his short film Tango in 1983. Between 1984 and 1994 Gerald Kargl worked on more than 100 commercials and promotional films as author, director and producer, receiving more than 30 national and international awards, Cannes and Clio Awards among others. Since 1994 to date he wrote, directed and produced more than 20 documentaries and educational films.
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